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wa8yxm
Jun 05, 2014Explorer III
Smart TVs are great if you live in a stick house with good wire-line INTERNET but.... If you live in an RV you have a choice of park Wi-Fi, SAT or Cellular internet.
Park Wi=Fi you will not make friends if you use Smart TV internet features since you will be a BANDWIDTH HOG. Video can easily suck up 1 gig per hour if it is high quality, I've seen some at about a quarter of that but the quality was not good.
Likewise if you use Sat you are going to bang up against the company's fair use policy,, This, depending on the company, may get you shut down to watching grass grow speeds (not enough for video) likely half way through your first hour By the way I think its down to Hughes net classical (NOT gen 4) for RV use, I know Excide is the old Wild Blue and not RV friendly, I think GEn 4 from hughes is like Excide but.. till I get accurate feedback on it, not sure.
Cell plans.. Well T-Mobile you get a few hours worth (6.5 gigs on my plan) then they shut you down to dial up speeds. No additional charge but frustrating if you do anythign graphic.
Verizon.. They do not throttle you but you may throttle whomever wateched all that internet TV when the bill or should I say BILL!!!! arrives.
Do not know about AT&T or Sprint. Though Sprint used to have a Unlimited plan (500/month) that was really unlimited. Coverage they are not long on but they had a true unlimited plan (Verizon has best coverage).
So I'd not be using the internet features of the TV less you are at home on a wire-connection.
Park Wi=Fi you will not make friends if you use Smart TV internet features since you will be a BANDWIDTH HOG. Video can easily suck up 1 gig per hour if it is high quality, I've seen some at about a quarter of that but the quality was not good.
Likewise if you use Sat you are going to bang up against the company's fair use policy,, This, depending on the company, may get you shut down to watching grass grow speeds (not enough for video) likely half way through your first hour By the way I think its down to Hughes net classical (NOT gen 4) for RV use, I know Excide is the old Wild Blue and not RV friendly, I think GEn 4 from hughes is like Excide but.. till I get accurate feedback on it, not sure.
Cell plans.. Well T-Mobile you get a few hours worth (6.5 gigs on my plan) then they shut you down to dial up speeds. No additional charge but frustrating if you do anythign graphic.
Verizon.. They do not throttle you but you may throttle whomever wateched all that internet TV when the bill or should I say BILL!!!! arrives.
Do not know about AT&T or Sprint. Though Sprint used to have a Unlimited plan (500/month) that was really unlimited. Coverage they are not long on but they had a true unlimited plan (Verizon has best coverage).
So I'd not be using the internet features of the TV less you are at home on a wire-connection.
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